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Monitoring aid: Lessons from a natural resources programme in Tanzania
U4 Practice Insight | Jul 2009
This Practice Insight describes the Norwegian Embassy’s decision in 2006 to independently evaluate their long-term support to the Management of ...
practice insight, nrm, natural resource management, monitoring aid, corruption in aid, , tanzania
Local to Global Protection in Myanmar (Burma), Sudan, South Sudan and Zimbabwe
News | 7 Feb 2012
The study provides an important insight, food for thought and further discussion on the Responsibility to Protect and the limitations of UN Missions.
Sudan
Commitment, control and interest: A case study in operationalising ownership
U4 Practice Insight | Sep 2009
How can donors promote national ownership in the projects and programmes they fund? How do national counterparts regard ownership? How to translate principles ...
private sector, practice insight, serbia
Women Judges in Afghanistan: An Interview with Anisa Rasooli
CMI Insight | Jul 2020
Women Judges in Afghanistan: An Interview with Anisa Rasooli Antonio De Lauri CMI Insight Woman Judg
Woman Judges, Anisa Rasooli, Judicial system, Afghanistan
The campaign to promote the African Union Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance: Insights into advocacy on the African continent
U4 Practice Insight | May 2013
This U4 Practice Insight seeks to communicate the experiences and lessons learned by a governance specialist during three years of advocacy work to promote ...
conventions, South Africa
A Hawk in Dove’s Feathers: Colombian Civil-Military Relations Under Santos
CMI Insight | Feb 2015
Colombian president Juan Manual Santos has claimed a new approach to security politics in the violence-ridden South American nation. This Insight reviews ...
Civil-Military Relations, Colombia
From Paris to the anti-corruption project: Examining the feasibility of ownership
U4 Practice Insight | Jan 2010
This Practice Insight summarises lessons learned from four case studies conducted to examine what bearing the notion of ownership has on anti-corruption ...
private sector
Lessons learned from the evaluation of five Council of Europe projects
U4 Practice Insight | Feb 2011
How successful are donor supported anti-corruption reforms? In this Practice Insight, the author takes a look at the evaluation of five large-scale ...
corruption in aid
Reforming the personal income tax system in Angola: An alternative proposal
CMI Insight | Jun 2014
Reforming the personal income tax legislation in Angola has been under preparation since 2011. There are many challenges related to creating an effective ...
Angola
See you in court! Holding the military to account in Latin America
CMI Insight | Feb 2016
The courtroom has become an increasingly common meeting place for retired military officials, and victims and their families who have suffered various ...
Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Chile
Sexual violence and state violence against women in Egypt, 2011-2014
CMI Insight | Sep 2014
Egyptian women were crucial to the movement that overthrew Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in the 2011 revolution. However, both in the revolutionary ...
Revolution, Arab spring, sexual assault, Egypt
Military trials in Egypt: 2011-2014
CMI Insight | Dec 2014
The use of military tribunals to try civilians was one of the issues that made people rise against then Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in 2011. This ...
military tribunals, Egypt
Fifty years since the military coup: Taking stock of Brazilian democracy
CMI Insight | Sep 2014
In 1964, a military dictatorship that would last for 21 years was installed in Brazil. After a relatively smooth transition to democracy in 1985, Brazil ...
military, dictatorship, transition to democracy, Brazil
Gender parity in Senegal – A continuing struggle
CMI Insight | May 2017
In 2010, the Senegalese women’s movement, supported by political elites and international norms, managed to push for the adoption of one of the ...
women's movement, marabout, religion, Senegal
The eternal conflict: Land, peasants, and the military in Mexico
CMI Insight | May 2015
Land has always been an important site of struggle in Mexico, often bringing peasant movements and peasant communities into conflicts with the Mexican ...
Mexico
NGOs and corruption in post-war reconstruction: The case of Bosnia's refugee return
U4 Practice Insight | Feb 2011
In this Practice Insight, the author discusses post-war corruption challenges based on the reconstruction effort and return of refugees in Bosnia and ...
corruption in aid, , Bosnia, Herzegovina
Roots of fragmentation: The army and regime survival in Syria
CMI Insight | Apr 2014
The Syrian army did not turn on the regime in the face of popular protests, contrary to its Egyptian and Tunisian counterparts. Yet, the Syrian army lost ...
Syria
The Sudan Armed Forces and Prospects of Change
CMI Insight | Apr 2016
The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) has a long history of siding with civil protestors in times of national political crisis. In recent years, waves of popular ...
Sudan, Sudan Armed Forces, Arab Spring, Military
The UNCAC Complaince Review in Kenya: Process and prospects
U4 Practice Insight | Jan 2010
The UNCAC Complaince Review in Kenya: Process and prospects Jessica Leigh Schultz U4 Practice Insigh
corruption, Kenya
Zambia’s looming debt crisis – is China to blame?
CMI Insight | Jun 2019
Is China pressuring poor countries with debt? Debt trap diplomacy is a recent term that is used to describe Chinese loans for infrastructure and development ...
Zambia, China